Carrowmore
- Dates

The oldest date
recovered so far from Carrowmore, 5,400 B.C., is extremely early and most
Irish archeologists have dismissed as being too old. The general opinion
today, based on Burenhult's research, is that Carrowmore is an early site
from around the time mesolithic hunter-gatherers were turning into neolithic
farmers.

In 2002 an archaeology
seminar called 'Stones and Bones' was held in Sligo in honour of Michael
O'Kelly, the excavator of Newgrange.
Göran Burenhult, who was invited to dig at Carrowmore by O'Kelly, hosted
the seminar. The dates below are his latest published work on Carrowmore,
and are somewhat re-calibrated from his contraversial early dates.

Swedish
excavation at Carrowmore 27. This is a verticle
photo of one of the three recesses of the chamber, the only cruciform
chamber found at Carrowmore.